The Philosophical Dimension of Learning
PHILOSOPHY & EDUCATION CONFERENCE – RUGBY SCHOOL, 8 MAY Speaking at a conference on ‘The Philosophical Dimension of Learning’. Full[…]
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Midori House – 27 April
MIDORI HOUSE, MONOCLE 24 – 27 April. I was on this programme last Friday talking about The Shrink and The[…]
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In the latest microphilosophy podcast I talk to Richard Lloyd Parry, author of People Who Eat Darkness, and Tobias Jones, author of Blood on the Altar about how the experience of writing about true, gruesome crimes has affected their understanding of evil and human nature.
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We can only live life to the full if we accept that everything is indeed broken, in the long run anyway. And that means that brokenness is not an aberration but a central fact of life, one which enables us to appreciate its transitory, flawed nature. “There is a crack in everything,” sang another musical poet, Leonard Cohen, “that’s how the light gets in.”
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Why do so many people form a deep attachment to what is, in essence, no more than a level surface on which to rest a computer, some books, a coffee cup or a glass of something stronger?
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